Can I use view pager with views (not with fragments)

Question

I am using ViewPager for swiping between Fragments, but can I use ViewPager to swipe between Views simple XML layout?

Answer 1

Based on the previous answers, I made the following class to achieve that in a proper and clearest way (I hope):

public class MyViewPagerAdapter extends PagerAdapter {

    ArrayList views;
    LayoutInflater inflater;

    public MyViewPagerAdapter(ActionBarActivity ctx){
        inflater = LayoutInflater.from(ctx);
        //instantiate your views list
        views = new ArrayList(5);
    }

    /**
     * To be called by onStop
     * Clean the memory
     */
    public void release(){
     views.clear();
        views = null;
    }

    /**
     * Return the number of views available.
     */
    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return 5;
    }

    /**
     * Create the page for the given position. The adapter is responsible
     * for adding the view to the container given here, although it only
     * must ensure this is done by the time it returns from
     * {@link #finishUpdate(ViewGroup)}.
     *
     * @param container The containing View in which the page will be shown.
     * @param position The page position to be instantiated.
     * @return Returns an Object representing the new page. This does not
     *         need to be a View, but can be some other container of
     *         the page.  ,container
     */
    public Object instantiateItem(ViewGroup container, int position) {
        ViewGroup currentView;
        Log.e("MyViewPagerAdapter", "instantiateItem for " + position);
        if(views.size()>position&&views.get(position) != null){
            Log.e("MyViewPagerAdapter",
                  "instantiateItem views.get(position) " +
                  views.get(position));
            currentView = views.get(position);
        }
        else{
            Log.e("MyViewPagerAdapter", "instantiateItem need to create the View");
            int rootLayout = R.layout.view_screen;
            currentView = (ViewGroup) inflater.inflate(rootLayout, container, false);

            ((TextView)currentView.findViewById(R.id.txvTitle)).setText("My Views " + position);
            ((TextView)currentView.findViewById(R.id.btnButton)).setText("Button");
            ((ImageView)currentView.findViewById(R.id.imvPicture)).setBackgroundColor(0xFF00FF00);
        }
        container.addView(currentView);
        return currentView;
    }

    /**
     * Remove a page for the given position. The adapter is responsible
     * for removing the view from its container, although it only must ensure
     * this is done by the time it returns from {@link #finishUpdate(ViewGroup)}.
     *
     * @param container The containing View from which the page will be removed.
     * @param position The page position to be removed.
     * @param object The same object that was returned by
     * {@link #instantiateItem(View, int)}.
     */
    @Override
    public void destroyItem(ViewGroup container, int position, Object object) {
        container.removeView((View)object);

    }

    /**
     * Determines whether a page View is associated with a specific key object
     * as returned by {@link #instantiateItem(ViewGroup, int)}. This method is
     * required for a PagerAdapter to function properly.
     *
     * @param view   Page View to check for association with object
     * @param object Object to check for association with view
     * @return true if view is associated with the key object object
     */
    @Override
    public boolean isViewFromObject(View view, Object object) {
        return view==((View)object);
    }
}

And you have to set it in your activity:

public class ActivityWithViewsPaged extends ActionBarActivity {

    /**
     * The page Adapter: Manage the list of views (in fact here, its fragments)
     * And send them to the ViewPager
     */
    private MyViewPagerAdapter pagerAdapter;

    /**
     * The ViewPager is a ViewGroup that manage the swipe from left
     * to right to left.
     * Like a listView with a gesture listener...
     */
    private ViewPager viewPager;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_with_views);

        // Find the viewPager
        viewPager = (ViewPager) super.findViewById(R.id.viewpager);

        // Instantiate the PageAdapter
        pagerAdapter = new MyViewPagerAdapter(this);

        // Affectation de l'adapter au ViewPager
        viewPager.setAdapter(pagerAdapter);
        viewPager.setClipToPadding(false);
        viewPager.setPageMargin(12);

        // Add animation when the page are swiped
        // this instanciation only works with honeyComb and more
        // if you want it all version use AnimatorProxy of the nineoldAndroid lib
        //@see:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15767729/backwards-compatible-pagetransformer
        if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB){
            viewPager.setPageTransformer(true, new PageTransformer());
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onStop() {
        super.onStop();
        pagerAdapter.release();
    }

Where the XML files are obvious view_screen.xml:

And ActivtyMain has the following layout:

Big thanks to Brian and Nicholas for your answer, I hope I add some clearest information and hightlight some good practices for this feature.